QPR target Manchester City sniper Elano with audacious loan bid

Mark Hughes may make an example of Manchester City dissenter Elano by sending the Brazilian on loan to Queens Park Rangers.

The West London club have reportedly made an ambitious bid for the attacking midfielder following an outburst than angered Hughes and earned the 27-year-old a £50,000 fine.

Jose Mourinho is also interested in taking the Brazil international to Inter Milan, but City may instead choose to send a message to other potential dissenters by sending Elano to Loftus Road, according to reports in the Daily Mirror.

The paper says QPR investor Flavio Briatore is keen for the club to sign a big name. Elano last week suggested Hughes rarely spoke to him and said he was disappointed at struggling to keep his place in the team.

The former Shakhtar Donetsk player said: 'I will keep working, arriving on time, doing my duties at the club, but my sadness is not playing.